Big bets for 2008

Some of those I see happening..

Some I don't... esp the Blu-ray trumping HD-DVD, to be honest I don't see this format war ending any time soon, if at all really.
 
Haven't the HD-dvd players become crazy cheap overseas? Whereas blu-ray is still bloody expensive.
 
Yeah they have.... old gen HD-DVD players are going for like 199$ or something stupid while the cheap BD player is still over 400$ (i think)

There is also the chance that this format war will be a damp squib with online content distribution becoming more and more prevalent.
 
ToxicBunny said:
Yeah they have.... old gen HD-DVD players are going for like 199$ or something stupid while the cheap BD player is still over 400$ (i think)

There is also the chance that this format war will be a damp squib with online content distribution becoming more and more prevalent.
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I know ive read a bit on that. Also read that apparently some movie studios dropped blu ray due to their issues they had with content and that some blu ray discs did not play on all the blu-ray players!?
 
Nice article indeed!

Mr. McLeod does not mince his words when it comes to Sentech. I also think he is a bit too optimistic about Blu Ray!
 
But Duncan forgot the most important part!!

The one where all Telkom top management were re-employed... as Village Idiots!
 
Related Article said:
Bandwidth caps will be doubled as Telkom slashes international bandwidth prices in anticipation of competition from Seacom, the consortium behind a new undersea cable project. Consumers who get 3GB/month on their broadband contracts can expect that to rise to at least 6GB/month by the end of next year, with no increase in price. If anything, prices will fall at the same time that the bandwidth caps are raised.Idiots!
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mmm why cant they do this now rather have satisfied customers sooner rather than later :O
 
* Sony’s Blu-ray will consign HD-DVD to the trash heap by triumphing in the battle of the next-generation high-definition disc formats. Expect a Blu-ray player for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 in time for Christmas 2008.
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Oh paaaalease. Sony Fanboy everyone. :p
 
I'm guessing he owns a PS3 :p

Although seriously, Blu-ray does have more studio support, but that is meaningless as it all depends on whether consumers buy into it or not, and at the moment most people are not buying into either Blu-ray or HD-DVD
 
Bandwidth caps will be doubled as Telkom slashes international bandwidth prices in anticipation of competition from Seacom, the consortium behind a new undersea cable project. Consumers who get 3GB/month on their broadband contracts can expect that to rise to at least 6GB/month by the end of next year, with no increase in price. If anything, prices will fall at the same time that the bandwidth caps are raised
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Well I hope that prepaid bandwidth will drop at the same time. mmm. R35 a gig is so much more attractive. I don't know if this will happen though.
 
pkid said:
Well I hope that prepaid bandwidth will drop at the same time. mmm. R35 a gig is so much more attractive. I don't know if this will happen though.
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Yip, I actually avoid using my prepaid b/w like the plague! :p :(
 
This article could be pretty accrurate except for the statement that Blu-Ray will win in the high-def format war. Telecomms writers should stick to writing about telecomms and leave consumer electronics to the CE experts :)

This is a very bold statement considering that Walmart and other US retailers are now selling stand-alone HD-DVD players for $199 and on a particular special a couple of weeks back they were letting them go for $99 - The cheapest Blu-Ray stand-alone player is $399. People who buy stand-alone players buy movies - people who buy games consoles (PS3 = Blu-Ray) buy games so the PS3 installed base doesn't mean much.

Also with Paramount and Dreamworks going HD-DVD exclusive (titles like Schrek and Transformers) the fight for the HD format of choice is long from over and even Sony's CEO has admitted that they are now in a stalemate.

The last multi-format studio - Warner - will decide this format war when they decide to back one of the two and this will happen in 2008.

So... the prediction should be - The winner of the Hi Def format war will be decided in 2008 by Warner - thanks to them we will finally see an outcome to this stupid format war.
 
I really love how people think big corporations will decide the format war. It is ultimately the consumer who makes the decision, not the big corporations.

If Warner drop Blu-Ray or HD-DVD, it will be because of consumer demand for one over the other.
 
ToxicBunny said:
I really love how people think big corporations will decide the format war. It is ultimately the consumer who makes the decision, not the big corporations.

If Warner drop Blu-Ray or HD-DVD, it will be because of consumer demand for one over the other.
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You are so right - the consumer will buy the product that suits his pocket and his taste in movies.

However Studio support is an important factor as Universal, Paramount (HD-DVD Exclusive) and Warner Brothers (Blu-Ray and HD-DVD) are the guys who release most of the big budget movies. Sony Pictures is big but not like those three.
 
Quoted from a recent Audioholics article

"This is what early adopters arguing for the superiority of one side or the other don’t seem to get.


There never should have been a format war but for greed driving the split over who owned what intellectual property rights for the container (the disc).


And the container has no bearing on the consumer experience as the video on both containers utilise the same video codecs.


The whole lot of these clowns on both sides of the BD/HD DVD war need to get this sorted out before the Internet downloadable formats make them irrelevant to the future of HD video. Pieces are falling into place and new technologies are popping up, and that always has a tendency to displace what we previously thought possible"

Ala Microsft Xbox Live Media Downloads - M$ is already making bucket loads of money with their downloadable movies.
 
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